Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Figures VII
4. INTRODUCTION Street Vending in the Neoliberal City: A Global Perspective on the Practices and Policies of a Marginalized Economy 1
5. PART I Responding to Urban and Global Neoliberal Policies
6. CHAPTER 1 Flexible Families: Latina/o Food Vending in Brooklyn, New York 19
7. CHAPTER 2 Street Vending and the Politics of Space in New York City 43
8. CHAPTER 3 Creative Resistance: The Case of Mexico City’s Street Artisans and Vendors 59
9. PART II Street Vending and Ethnicity
10. CHAPTER 4 Metropolitan Informality and Racialization: Street Vending in Berlin’s Historical Center 81
11. CHAPTER 5 Selling Memory and Nostalgia in the Barrio: Mexican and Central American Women (Re)Create Street Vending Spaces in Los Angeles 101
12. CHAPTER 6 Ethnic Contestations over African American Fiction: The Street Vending of Street Literature in New York City 117
13. PART III The Spatial Mobility of Urban Street Vending
14. CHAPTER 7 The Urbanism of Los Angeles Street Vending 139
15. CHAPTER 8 Selling in Insecurity, Living with Violence: Eviction Drives against Street Food Vendors in Dhaka and the Informal Politics of Exploitation 164
16. CHAPTER 9 The Street Vendors Act and Pedestrianism in India: A Reading of the Archival Politics of the Calcutta Hawker Sangram Committee 191
17. PART IV Historical Accounts of Street Vending
18. CHAPTER 10 Street Vending, Political Activism, and Community Building in African American History: The Case of Harlem 219
19. CHAPTER 11 The Roots of Street Commerce Regulation in the Urban Slave Society of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 233
20. Index 250